Later, according to the report, the patient remembered an eye injury while wearing this type of lens 28 years earlier. Her eye was hit by a shuttlecock during a badminton game when was 14 years old, LiveScience reported.

"The patient assumed that the RGP lens fell out and was lost; however, it can be inferred that the lens migrated into the eyelid and resided there asymptomatically for 28 years," the authors of the report wrote. But it wasn't clear why the trapped lens started to cause issues so long after it got lost in the eye, the LiveScience report added.

"If a corner of the lens can be visualized in a mirror, you can use a finger to slide it back down over the cornea where it can be removed normally," Cantor wrote. "Another technique is to gently massage through the eyelid down towards the cornea or you can try to lift or 'flip' the eyelid to make the lens visible."